Ryokan Tokiichiyu — Hotel in Minamiizu

We stayed for 2 nights. The ryokan is not a traditional one where the entire inn has 8 rooms or so, this is more of a hotel layout with a large lobby area and rooms in hallways. Our non smoking room had a great ocean view. While the furniture and feel of the hotel does feel a bit dated, that did not seem to matter. The onsen both private and public were very relaxing and nice. The dinner was quite excellent even for a western palate, and consisted primarily of tasty sashimi (had our first spiny lobster sashimi) as well as unusual but tasty side dishes and other seafood preparations that was all new to us. Unlike other ryokan , the dinner here is served in a restaurant format with servers, we did not mind having company around is as we ate even if we couldn't understand any conversation. Our servers name was Kotaro and while his English wasn't fantastic we really appreciated his attempt to explain the menu in English. He also wrote the menu for us in English separately which we really appreciated. His service and attempt to make us feel welcome did not go unnoticed and was a highlight for us. The service in general at the hotel was very good. Also the beach is a 10 second walk from the hotel so if the weather had been better, we would have enjoyed that element of the hotel as well.||Massage chairs downstairs were also enjoyable if you like that...

We stayed for 2 nights. The ryokan is not a traditional one where the entire inn has 8 rooms or so, this is more of a hotel layout with a large lobby area and rooms in hallways. Our non smoking room had a great ocean view. While the furniture and feel of the hotel does feel a bit dated, that did not seem to matter. The onsen both private and public were very relaxing and nice. The dinner was quite excellent even for a western palate, and consisted primarily of tasty sashimi (had our first spiny lobster sashimi) as well as unusual but tasty side dishes and other seafood preparations that was all new to us. Unlike other ryokan , the dinner here is served in a restaurant format with servers, we did not mind having company around is as we ate even if we couldn't understand any conversation. Our servers name was Kotaro and while his English wasn't fantastic we really appreciated his attempt to explain the menu in English. He also wrote the menu for us in English separately which we really appreciated. His service and attempt to make us feel welcome did not go unnoticed and was a highlight for us. The service in general at the hotel was very good. Also the beach is a 10 second walk from the hotel so if the weather had been better, we would have enjoyed that element of the hotel as well.||Massage chairs downstairs were also enjoyable if you like that...

We had a wonderful nights stay at this Ryokan which is by the beach in Minamiizu. We stayed in a Japanese style room with futon beds. The room was very spacious and had a balcony. There was a private onsen with the room, as well as a public onsen, and three first come first served private onsen, next to the public onsen. They were all very nice and relaxing. In addition we had dinner in our own private dinning room where we had a ten course Japanese dinner including a huge sashimi boat. All of the food was lovely and everyone left completely full. In the morning we also had a buffet breakfast with a large choice of Japanese dishes as well as pastries and fruit. All in all this was a very enjoyable stay and we would definitely like to...